This data collection contains time series data on a
selected set of agricultural variables for 105 Kansas counties over
the period 1874-1936. The study, part of a larger research project on
American agriculture funded by the National Science Foundation, was
prepared at Yale University as Version 2 of KANATICS (a Kansas
Agricultural Time Series/Cross Section), which extends and corrects
the first version, a 1977 working paper. The series data in Part 1 are
an exact representation of the data found in various quarterly,
annual, and biennial reports of the Kansas State Board of
Agriculture. Data include information on acreage sown, number of
bushels and value of different field crops harvested, and number and
value of livestock. Part 2 contains consolidated and manipulated
series data, including manipulations of the series in Part 1, e.g.,
the value per bushel of various field crops, adjusted total cultivated
acres, adjusted field crop income, and prices per animal.

The data are organized in matrix form. Each of the
rows of the matrix is a single logical record and consists of 63
observations (one per year) for one county for one variable. Within
each matrix, the counties are in alphabetical order. Each variable is
fourteen characters wide. Both data files contain some blanks.

At
the request of the principal investigators, any publications drawing
upon this file should acknowledge the initial preparers, Stephen
J. DeCanio and Joseph Trojanowski (of Yale University), and note that
the data were prepared as part of a research project funded by the
National Science Foundation.